In article ,
says...
I wonder...with their voracious thirst, how did they become so prolific
in Phoenix? Do their tap roots reach so far down that they eventually hit
groundwater?


They have been found as deep as 150 feet below the
surface and supposedly can reach over 200 feet.
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